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Fishing for Solutions: Sustainable Trout Farming in the Slate BeltPresented by the Lafayette Technology Clinic

Stacey Goldberg, Aaditya Khanal, Rachel LeWitt, Holden Ranz, Garrett Rice, Yen Joe Tan

Professors Dan Bauer and Javad Tavakoli

About the Tech Clinic Innovations Being Explored The Process

Current Project Motivation

Fish Died in summer 2011

•High temperatures during summer months

•Low dissolved oxygen levels

•Predators

•Chemical imbalances

Sustainable expansion of operations

Marketing and profitability

Controlling Temperature:

Using Solar Panels as Shade:

Using Synectics and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Selling fish waste as an organic fertilizer

Encouraging Partnerships with local restaurants

Employing companies in the Slate Belt region to

manufacture products that are needed

Indoor vs. outdoor trout farming

Creating networking opportunities among local

companies

Implications for the Local Economy

Controlling Dissolved Oxygen Levels:

The Technology Clinic is an interdisciplinary

course at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, which aims

to provide students the practical experience that many

other classes lack.

Since its inception in 1986, Tech Clinic has

provided opportunities for small groups of highly

motivated students with different backgrounds –

usually consisting of five or six members – to work

closely with professors and other professional mentors

to solve real-world problems.

Locations for small fish

ponds

Locations for fish pools

Primary trout pond

Spray aeration system

Spray Cooling

Geothermal Cooling

Using Aquatic Plants as Shade

Using Waterfalls and

Window Screens to

Increase Aeration

Surface Spray Aerators